Here are the options I see. Every one just gives new papercuts.

1. Change the folder it points to to the actual /home folder
 - which is a folder a normal user wouldn't care about. 

2. Ad " 's folder" to username
- This would assume too much about what a username is. If I have a username 
"cars" for some reason, the folder would be labeled "cars's folder". Languages 
have too many crazy rules for this to work even in english. 

3. Simply use the username as is
- Thus we would be going to Places>nathan. Aside from being uncapitalized (by 
necessity, think iTunes vs ITunes), this is a poor metaphor for a desktop. It 
forces the user to think of "nathan" as a directory, rather than a name. 

4. Leave the bug untreated, or at best combining both to Home Folder.

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4 isn't even treating the issue.
1 and 2 make new problems which aren't easily overcome
3 is thus the least bad, and I think the only real solution we have available 
without changing the way we organize files.

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"Home Folder" has 3 different names
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